Awakening Needs

Discover a gentle invitation to reconnect with what makes us beautifully human.
The Awakening Needs Card Deck is a heartfelt collection of 40 unique watercolour artworks, each one a reflection of our shared human needs — compassion, joy, nurturance, belonging, creativity, rest, and more.

Each card carries its own story, a whisper of wisdom, and a deeper meaning to explore. Together, they offer a pathway to greater clarity, understanding, and self-connection — helping you recognise and honour the needs that shape a fulfilling, balanced life.

Created through the soulful collaboration of Linda Nolan (artist) and Karen Plumbe (author), Awakening Needs is a project born from lived experience — a journey of realising how profoundly our wellbeing is enriched when we understand and meet our own human needs. What began as a personal awakening grew into a shared desire to bring this insight to the wider community through art that speaks to the heart.

Whether used in personal reflection, counselling, coaching, group work, or creative exploration, these cards are an inspiring tool for conversation, connection, and growth.

Awakening Needs — because when we tend to our needs, we awaken to our wholeness.

Awakening Needs Cards and Prints

Light and Shade of Awakening Needs

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Our Universal Human Needs form the foundation of our behaviour, motivation, our relationships, our communication, and ultimately the creation of a meaningful and fulfilling life. By knowing our needs clearly we are better able to understand ourselves and the challenges that we face in everyday life.

Finding our unique expression of needs through creativity and journaling is vital to deeply understanding how best to meet our own needs. Suitable for artists and non artists alike, the activities are nurturing, expansive and fun. This six week meander will take you through new terrain as you creatively explore your human needs

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What if “peace, compassion, and wisdom” wasn’t just a slogan on a book cover but actually your everyday experience?

What if you were able to make a real difference in your family, community, and the world, by embodying those qualities in your words and actions?

The book offers a progression of short, simple, and doable practices for readers to incorporate into their daily lives over the course of three months. Practices like mindfulness meditation, Nonviolent Communication, gratitude, and forgiveness are explained in clear, ordinary language, with an emphasis on how they can be applied in everyday life situations. From basic body awareness to making boundaries and speaking truth, The Ongo Book explores both the practical and the profound, with accessible yet deep learning for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

 

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Get in contact today and we will make a time to get to know one another, to hear your story and share the vision of building community together. Like to join the thrive group we are taking expressions of interest now. 

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